Another old drawer made into a shelf

Bought this big ole drawer at a salvage yard many years ago to use a a display ‘crate’, for which it served many years of gracious duty. Now that I’ve ‘evolved’ to using furniture to display on, it has sat in the storage shed for YEARS, awaiting a new mission. So, we decided to ‘gussy it up a bit’ and turn it into a shelf.

Michael filled the hole where the knob used to be, and cut the shelf and two pieces of 2×4 to use as feet. The drawer front (shelf top) had glossy paint on it so I sanded that down for the new paint to adhere better. As always, I paint the piece BEFORE Michael assembles it. MUCH faster and easier to paint that way. Then I just have to touch up the paint a tad where the nail go in.

How cute is that?!?!? I seem to be in the mood lately to leave painted items NOT distressed. But it could have easily been sanded a bit along the edges had I wanted the distressed look.

Got any old drawers laying around that need a make over????

Pretty little beach table

Michael cut a bigger top out of cedar fence boards to place on this old bar stool to make it into a nice little side table.

I left the wood ‘rough cut’ and dry brushed assorted ‘beachy’ colors.  I just did this ‘free-hand’ so the stripes aren’t ‘perfect’.  Once dry, I sanded it to distress and applied a coat of our weathered wood wash to make it look gray and weathered.

What a perfect little table for a cottage bedroom or even an end table or patio table!

Now I’m on the hunt for other stuff I can paint using this technique.  I’ve got an old cheese box, some unfinished wood frames . . . . What else?!?!

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Shabby cottage pedestal candle holders

This is how these came.  They’re OKAY, I suppose, but I felt they needed more OOMPH!  There were two sets of these three.

Gave them some prettier colors for starters:

Then decided the square based ones needed some more ‘weight’, so I added an additional base piece ( a beveled wood plaque)

That smaller black one (an orphan; not part of this set) needed some additional weight too.  It got TWO more pieces on the base and ended up being painted red.

I added some metal candle plates: some painted, some not.  Sanded and distressed them so some of the white showed through, and of course, added candles!

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Painted chipboard letters

Picked up these chipboard letters at the craft store.  Painted them different shades of turquoise, green and tan stripes.  This is the painting before I sanded them. 

Sanded and stained then with my weathered wood wash, which gives it a nice ’soft gray’ color; just like fence boards get after being out in the weather for years.

Added a coat of matte varnish.

Close up of the sanding.

The ‘beach’ one sold as soon as I put it out in the store.  I had JUST taken the pictures!  I found some more of the letters to make another ‘beach’ set; and still have the ‘coast’ set. 

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New signs from old fenceboards

And I’ve still got FOUR of those wonderful old blue boards to make more!

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Little beach lamp

Vintage blue 1/2 gallon canning jar and  jar lamp adapter (garage sale purchases) sand and shells from the craft store and a lamp shade.  I’ve seen these made with ALL kinds of fun stuff in the jars!  Things like vintage jacks and balls, marbles, rag balls and old clothespins, cookie cutters and small old kitchen utensils.  You could create on to go with just about any decorating theme.

BIG wall clocks have arrived! $39.95

JUST IN:

Fabulous over-sized wall clocks.  Priced at $39.95.

Only had room to hang the one beach one for the time being.  The rest are still in the box.

We only have these four, so when they’re gone, they’re gone!

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